Yeah, I learned on Protools first and find myself gravitating back in that direction. May upgrade this year. Which costs more than buying Studio One outright. I'm still messing about with Studio One though for the VSTs.

PascalVB wrote:I'm at the crucial point where adding more plugins will shift the focus from making music to choosing plugins...

What holes do you still want to fill?

Exactly! I think a lot of us (certainly, me) have past the point of saturation some time ago. It's getting quite ridiculous from my perspective!

As for "holes" I'd like to fill...the hole that used to be filled with desire and passion for making and enjoying music I just want that spark back; I care less and less about "quality", "accuracy", and any of the other buzzwords we used to analyze the endless pursuit of new plug-ins.

wachimol wrote:im interested in buying synthmaster, but I have the CM version waiting to be installed on my desktop. What are the CM version's limitations?

SynthMasterCM is a cutdown version of SynthMaster with the following feature set:

1. Has 1 layer -> full version has 2
2. Has 2 wavescan oscillators per layer -> full version has basic, additive, wavescan and vector oscillators
3. Has 1 analog filter per layer -> full version has 2 filters, analog/digital
4. Has less modulation sources compared to full version
5. No FX (VST) version with audio input
6. Has 3 effects only: chorus, reverb, delay (full version has phaser, ensemble, vocoder, lofi, distortion and compressor as well)
7. Polyphony is limited to 12 voices (full version has 32 voice polyphony per layer)
8. Max oversample ratio is 2x at good quality (4x for full version)
9. Comes with 60 factory presets (full version has 500 factory presets, 100 more are on the way from Rob Lee )

I think I own pretty much everything I can use, plugin-wise. Maybe a new instrument for cinematic/ambient stuff.. but I own Alchemy and it does that kind of work quite well.. I'm tired of using Acid Pro so I needed a new sequencer, right as my all-time favorite (Tracktion) rose from the dead (so I upgraded)..